Japan marks two years since devastating tsunami

March 11, 2013

Nearly 19,000 perished in the 2011 natural disaster

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A Japanese walks through a flooded street in the tsunami and earthquake ravaged city of Kesennuma, northeastern Japan Sunday, March 27, 2011. The magnitude-9 quake off Japan's northeast coast March 11 triggered a tsunami that barreled onshore and disabled the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

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A Japanese walks through a flooded street in the tsunami and earthquake ravaged city of Kesennuma, northeastern Japan Sunday, March 27, 2011. The magnitude-9 quake off Japan's northeast coast March 11 triggered a tsunami that barreled onshore and disabled the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)